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Below are links to some of the great free online educational resources available to teachers.
All work well on the Electronic Whiteboard.
Feel free to add to the list at any time.

Literacy | Numeracy | Science | Integrated Units | Graphic Organisers | Screencasting | Classroom Management | Creative Visual| Department Resources | Random but Useful


LITERACY ACTIVITIES
STORY BOOKS ONLINE

Grimm Fairy Tales
Absolutely Whootie: Stories to Grow By
Adventures of Banph
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables Online Collection
Andersen Fairy Tales
AntBee's Childrens' Stories
BeanTime Stories
Bedtime Story
Between the Lions
Childrenstory.com
Children's Reading Room
Giggle Poetry
Hans Wilhelm's Storytime
Lil' Fingers Storybooks
Merpy.com
MysteryNet's Kids Mysteries
Ongoing Tales - Literature from the Past
Room 108 - Kids Activity Center
StoryPlace
Wacky Web Tales
WonderVista.com

SPELLING / LANGUAGE / GRAMMAR
4Kids Games
Arcademic Skill Builders h
Ask Doctor Grammar
Australian Slang
BBC - Literacy Place
Baldwin Project
Bembo's Zoo !
Between the Lions
Books and Stories
BoomBah
Brain Teasers
Children's Books Online
CyberGuides
Dance Mat Typing
Education Place: Spelling and Vocabulary.
Free Rice
Harcourt Language Arts preview site
Grammar Practice Park.
Johnnie's Story Page
Kids on the Net
Writing With a Difference,
KidsSpell
Language Guide
Launch Pad:
Literacy Net
Little Explorers English Picture Dictionary fMeet Me at the Corner,Nassau Library Kids Section T Owl & Mouse Educational Software
PIZZAZ! Root Words Quiz
Roxie's ABC Fish
Sesame Street
Spelling Match **StarFall** Visual Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online
Wacky Web Tales
Web English Teacher
Web Word Find
Webster's Online Dictionary
Word Builder
Word Girl
WriteSite

CARTOON STRIPS
Websites to generate comic style books, comic strips and animations with narrative. Cartoons can be posted online, shared and discussed with others.
ToonDo
GoAnimate
Comic Life
Pixton
Make Beliefs Comix

WRITING
A wide range of templates that students can edit and customise to suit their needs/audience/subject etc

Fodey

LetterPop

PlotBot

CROSSWORDS, CLOZES ETC
Allows you to create customised crosswords, cloze activities, quizzes, word matches and more. These can be generated in a browser window for students. Hot Potatoes



GAMES / INTERACTIVES

Copacabana
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MATHS ACTIVITIES

Websites to for Numeracy based activities. Some which integrate well with the Electronic Whiteboard.

Interactivate
Copacabana
Fun Brain
Rainforest Maths
Mathway
**Shodor Interactivate*
**A+ Math**
AAA Math
Ask Dr. Math
Brain Bashers
**Brain Teasers**
CoolMath.com
Education 4 Kids
Escape from Knab
Figure This!
The Fruit Game
Math.com
Math Advantage
Math Goodies
Math in Daily Life
**MathStories.com**
PlaneMath Activities
Prongo.com
Rick's Math Web
Teach R Kids Math


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SCIENCE

Copacabana
Interactivate
HowStuffWorks
*Videolectures.NET
Amusement Park Physics
Ask Dr. UniverseBeyond 2000
BrainPop
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Color Matters
Cool Science for Curious Kids
Dr. Bob's Interesting Science Stuff
Exploring Leonardo
Extreme Science
FT Exploring
Funology.com
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
How Stuff Works
Human Anatomy Online
Infrared Zoo
Planetpals Earthzone
Popular Science
Questacon
The Revolutionaries
Robot Constructor
The Rudiments of Wisdom Encyclopedia
The Science Explorer
Time for Kids
Science Made Simple
The Science of Hockey
ScienceMonster.com
Sea and Sky
Skateboard Science
Strange Science
Triumph of the Nerds
Volcanoes
Volcano World
Your Weight On Other Worlds



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INTEGRATED UNITS
**Visible Body**
Wikipedia
WorldWide Telescope**
HowStuffWorks
NASA - A cool place to learn about space.
PBS - The website of Channel 13.
Think Quest - The company providing the contest we are enter.
Kids Space - If you want to learn about space, this is the place to visit. National Geographic - This is a kids national Geographic site.
Discovery Channel - You can learn so much here, just like the channel!
Learning Kids - This place has the coolest experiments!
Volcanos - This place has so much cool information on Volcanos!
The Mediterranean - This place has information on the Mediterranean Sea and stories about different kids from different regions!
Amazing Space
Arty the Part Time Astronaut
Astronomy for Kids
Building the International Space Station
Earth and Moon Viewer
Earth from Space
Human Physiology in Space
NASA KIDS
NASA's Observatorium
Popular Science
Sea and Sky
So You Want to be an Astronaut
Space Camp
Space Day
The Space Place
spaceKids.com
StarChild
Time for Kids
Understanding the Universe
Virtual Solar System
Welcome To The Planets
Windows to the Universe
Billy Bear's Land O' Dinosaurs
Curse of T. Rex
DinoBuzz
Dinorama
DinoQuest Sahara
Dinosaur Eggs Museum
Dinosaur Galleries
Dinosaur Illustrations
Dinosaurs!
Download-a-Dinosaur
Meet the Dinosaurs
My Dinomite Site!
Prehistoric Life
Sibbick's Dinosaur Pictures
What is a Dinosaur?
Zoom Dinosaurs

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GRAPHIC ORGANISERS
Mind Mapping
Mindomo
Bubbl.us
MindMeister
FreeMind

Flow Charts
Gliffy


Graphic Organisers
ReadWriteThink

Timelines
XTimeLine
Dipity

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SCREENCASTING

Screencasting tools allow you to capture images and video from your desktop and quickly and easily share them with others

Jing
Wink

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CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Create tests, quizzes & surveys. Set work for your classes. Automatic marking. All stored securely online with teacher and student password access

Classmarker
Engrade
Yacapaca


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CREATIVE / VISUAL

With these sites you can upload your own pictures and music to create film clips, interactive posters, magazine covers, badges and much more
Glogster
Animoto
Big Huge Labs
Blender
**Splashup**


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DEPARTMENT RESOURCES

Huge library of digital learning objects, webquests and other tools for classroom use.
Digilearn
DEECD Webquests
ePotential

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RANDOM YET USEFUL

1. Easy-to-use and secure Internet browser? **Firefox**
2. e-Mail system? **Gmail**
3. Social bookmarking tool? **del.icio.us**
4. Social bookmarking tool with collaborative learning features (groups, forums, etc.)? **Diigo**
5. Tool to translate text or a webpage? **Google Language Tools**
6. RSS reader? **Omea Reader**
7. Online RSS reader? **Google Reader**
8. Online Calendar? **Google Calendar**
9. Tool to aggregate all my resources, mail, RSS feeds, etc, in one place? Netvibes, **iGoogle** or **Pageflakes**
10. Platform to incorporate all my favorite tools within one environment? **Elgg**
11. Learning Management System (LMS)? Easy, **Moodle**
12. Hosted LMS? Here are **SEVEN**!
13. Tool to assist me in evaluating and selecting a LMS? **EduTools**
14. Learning Activity Management System? **LAMS**
15. Collaboration tool? Connect with **Ning**
16. Social Networking tool? Tricky one! **Facebook**
17. Tool to create study groups and manage group projects? GroupTable
18. Tool to keep track of my schoolwork (assignments)? Soshiku
19. 3D online virtual world where I can socialize, connect and learn? **Second Life**
20. Content Management System (CMS)? **Joomla**
21. Tool to create my own website? **Webnode**
22. Virtual Classroom? **DimDim**
23. Hosted Virtual Classroom? **WiZiQ**
24. Tool to broadcast myself to the world? **USTREAM**
25. Tool to make calls from my computer? **Skype**
26. Videoconferencing chat service? **Vawkr**
27. Content authoring tool? How about two? **eXe** & **CourseLab**
28. Alternative to Microsoft Office? **OpenOffice**
29. Online suite of office tools? **Google Docs** or **Zoho**
30. Tool that accurately converts my PowerPoint to Flash (including animations)? **iSpring Free**
31. Web authoring tool alternative to FrontPage and Dreamweaver? **NvU** or **KompoZer**
32. Personal online notebook? **Google Notebook**
33. Blogging tool? **WordPress**! Why aren't you using WordPress? Good Question!
34. Blogging tool for educators? **Edublogs**
35. Directory of edubloggers from around the world? **International Edubloggers Directory**
36. Microblogging tool? **Twitter**
37. Wiki tool? **PBwiki**
38. Encyclopedia, which I can add to or edit? **Wikipedia**
39. Community dedicated to collaborative development of free content? **WikiEducator**
40. Audio recording tool? **Audacity**
41. Tool to record and host my audio recordings online? **Odeo Studio**
42. Tool to transform media into collaborative spaces with video, voice and text commenting? **VoiceThread**
43. Tool for storytelling? **Here are 50!**
44. Screencasting (recording) tool? **Wink**
45. Hosted screencasting tool? **Jing**
46. Mindmapping tool? **FreeMind**
47. Tool to brainstorm and create mindmaps online? **Bubbl.us** or MindMeister
48. Easy-to-learn 3D authoring software tool? **Google SketchUp**
49. Alternative to 3D Studio Max? **Blender**
50. Photo/image editing tool? **GIMP** or **Picasa**
51. Online photo/image editing tool? **Splashup**
52. Tool to create cool personalized images? **Custom Sign Generator Widgets**
53. Image Resizer? **Dosize**
54. Watermarking tool? **uMark**
55. Screen Color Picker? **ColorSchemer**
56. Tool to highlight text in a webpage? **The Awesome Highlighter**
57. Tool to create flowcharts, diagrams, technical drawings? **Gliffy**
58. Tool to create comics and cartoons? **ToonDoo**
59. Tool to create animations? **GoAnimate**
60. Tool to make screenshots from different browsers with one click? **Browsershots**
61. Tool to create PDFs from any Windows program? **PDFCreator**
62. Online file conversion tool (e.g. Word >PDF>PowerPoint)? **Zamzar**
63. Tool to share my slides? **SlideShare**, SlideBoom or authorSTREAM
64. Tool to share my videos? **YouTube** or TeacherTube
65. Tool to share any type of file with unlimited storage capacity? Internet Archive
66. Online science research sharing portal? **SciVee**
67. Online community to share and discuss instructional teacher videos? **TeacherTube**
68. Online community to share, discuss and learn about the uses of educational technology? **EdTechTalk**
69. Online community to test my big ideas? **Big Think**
70. Tool to download videos from any video sharing site (YouTube, Metacafe, etc.)? **ClipNabber**
71. Self-publishing tool (books, papers, articles, etc)? **Scribd**
72. Tool to share my pictures? Are you joking! **Flickr**
73. Space to upload and share my files? **eSnips**
74. File hosting solution that allows me to share files up to 250MB each? **FileCrunch**
75. Online quiz tool? **ClassMarker**
76. Tool to create interactive quizzes and puzzles? **Hot Potatoes**
77. Tool to create web and print-based crossword puzzles? **EclipseCrossword**
78. Inquiry-oriented lesson tool? **WebQuest**
79. Multimedia flashcard software? MemoryLifter
80. Online polling tool with a bit of fizzle? **Polldaddy**
81. Online survey tool? **Click here to choose**!
82. Tool to create Flash games (templates)? **ClassTools.net**
83. Investment Simulation Game? **Virtual Trader**
84. Interactive 3D business simulator? **INNOV8**
85. Game to understand cancer better? **Re-Mission**
86. Game to understand the scientific method and 21st Century Skills? **River City**
87. Game to understand variable manipulations for urban management? **SimCity**
88. Game to understand social studies better? **Quest Atlantis**
89. Game to understand world hunger and efforts to alleviate it? **WFP Foodforce**
90. Game to learn more vocabulary and help hungry people? Seriously! **FreeRice**
91. Range of interactive tools to help me understand maths concepts? **Shodor Interactivate**
92. Step-by-step math problem solver? Mathway
93. Tool to create my own search engine tailored to my needs? Google Custom Search Engine
94. Human-powered search engine? **Mahalo**
95. Metasearch engine with visual display interfaces? What! Here is **KartOO**!
96. Search engine that groups the results by topic via automated clustering technology? **Vivisimo**
97. Science-specific search engine? **Scirus**
98. All-in-one research search tool? **Schoolr**
99. Tool to help me collect, manage, and cite my research sources? **Zotero**
100. Tool that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to my website? **Google Analytics**
101. Tool to search, discover, rank and compare different sites around the world? **Alexa**
102. Tool to search the full text of books? **Google Book Search**
103. Tool to search for scholarly literature? **Google Scholar**
104. Tool to search for patents? **Google Patent Search**
105. Tool that sends me email updates of the latest relevant Google results (e.g. e-Learning)? **Google Alerts**
106. Energy saving search engine? **Blackle**
107. Online visual dictionary and thesaurus? **Visuwords**
108. World digital library? **World Digital Library**
109. Tool to build and distribute my own digital library? **Greenstone**
110. Site to find and search across all OpenCourseWare (OCW) courses? **OpenCourseWare Consortium**
111. Repository and learning network of Open Educational Resources (OER)? **OER Commons**
112. Site to get the latest updates on OER and OCW? **OER Blogs**
113. Portal to non-formal OER and training resources? **Open Training Platform**
114. Encyclopedia of video tutorials to help me learn any software? **Edumax** or **Wikivid**
115. e-Book to learn more about e-learning 2.0? **Learning 2.0 eBook**
116. Site to learn more about rapid e-learning? **The Rapid e-Learning Blog**
117. Site to learn more about Online Course Development? **Hitchhiker’s Guide to Course Development**
118. Crash course in learning theory? **Click here!**
119. Database of Learning Theories? Click here & **here**!
120. Tool to help me understand and use learning styles effectively? **Learning Styles Online.com**
121. Repository of creative and critical thinking tools? **Mycoted to the rescue!**
122. Route to learn more about the 21st century skills? **Route 21**
123. Repository of how everything works? **HowStuffWorks**
124. Repository of lectures from the world's top scientists? **Videolectures.NET**
125. Directory of academic open access repositories? **OpenDOAR**
126. Site covering today's top social, political, and tech issues? **FORA.tv**
127. Site to improve my learning skills? **Study Guides & Strategies**
128. Gaming tool to help me learn ICT? **ReviseICT.co.uk**
129. Tool to improve my typing skills? **Peter's Online Typing Course**
130. Tool to improve my reading skills? **ZAP Reader**
131. Interactive courseware to improve my workplace skills? **ALISON**
132. Multimedia site that enhance our understanding of war and its history? **Maps-of-War**
133. 3D human anatomy visualization tool? **Visible Body**
134. Tool to learn languages? **Mango**
135. Tool to explore the World? **Google Earth**
136. Tool to explore the Universe? **WorldWide Telescope**
137. Tool to visualize human development? **Gapminder**
138. Tool to answer all my questions? **Answer.com**
139. Site with talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers? **TED** is a good starting point!
140. Article to reveal the secrets of the super-learners? **Click here!**
141. Link to the most innovative web 2.0 (and 3.0) lab in the world? **Google Labs**
142. Tool to stumble upon and discover great websites, videos, photos, etc. ? **StumbleUpon**
143. Daily newsletter that keeps me updated with the latest news on online learning? **Stephen's OLDaily**
144. Site dedicated to tracking the changes occurring in education today? **Open Education**
145. Site to update me on the latest free instructional resources for Higher Education? **EduResources Weblog** & **Educational Technology**
146. Site to discover delicious free tools, resources, and sites? **ZaidLearn's Del.icio.us Discoveries**
147. Site to make you shut up? About time! Here we go:

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